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Another steam gem in the O/S area, the Zawada pumping station on the western side of the metropolitan area. Steam engines and steam turbines were used to pump water directly up until 1967, when they were replaced by electric pumps. It is in my opinion more efficient to run pumping engines from steam from efficient, power plant grade boilers directly instead of running through the whole chain of first generating power by steam, transmitting it long distance while transforming it many times and the use it for electric motors, and I can't really fathom why we don't have steam pumping stations anymore. Especially as those 1920's engines had efficiencies comparable with turbines. But to be fair, some of the wells in that plant dried out back then, so they had to rethink their operations.

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Another steam gem in the O/S area, the Zawada pumping station on the western side of the metropolitan area. Steam engines and steam turbines were used to pump water directly up until 1967, when they were replaced by electric pumps. It is in my opinion more efficient to run pumping engines from steam from efficient, power plant grade boilers directly instead of running through the whole chain of first generating power by steam, transmitting it long distance while transforming it many times and the use it for electric motors, and I can't really fathom why we don't have steam pumping stations anymore. Especially as those 1920's engines had efficiencies comparable with turbines. But to be fair, some of the wells in that plant dried out back then, so they had to rethink their operations.